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Classical antiquity29 quotes
Dripping water hollows out a stone, a ring is worn away by use. — Ovid · 18If a person knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca · 65What is more agreeable than one's home? — Cicero · 46 BCWhile there's life, there's hope. — Cicero · 49 BCThe covetous man is ever in want. — Horace · 20 BCThe people are a many-headed beast. — Horace · 20 BCAll 29 quotes →Age of Enlightenment16 quotes
Woman's at best a contradiction still. — Alexander Pope · 1735Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. — Alexander Pope · 1727Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. — Edmund Burke · 1796How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. — Alexander Pope · 1732The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still. — Alexander Pope · 1733All 16 quotes →American Revolutionary Period16 quotes
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all. — John Adams · 1776The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government. — George Washington · 1789The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. — Thomas Jefferson · 1787In Politicks the Middle Way is none at all. — John Adams · 1776All Property indeed, except the Savage’s temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents & all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity & the Uses of it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1783All 16 quotes →Early Christianity16 quotes
There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church. — St. Cyprian · 256There is no salvation outside the Church. — St. Cyprian · 256When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. — St. Jerome · 395A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. — St. Jerome · 374Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. — St. Jerome · 374No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. — St. Jerome · 374All 16 quotes →The Renaissance7 quotes
I am much occupied with the investigation of physical causes. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock. — Johannes Kepler · 1605I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied. — Michelangelo · 1512We are continually dying; I while I am writing these words, you while you are reading them, others when they hear them or fail to hear them. I shall be dying when you read this, you die while I write, we both are dying, we all are dying, we are dying forever. — Petrarch · 1360Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war. — John Milton · 1674I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — Francis Bacon · 1591Today I climbed the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosus (Windy). The only motive for my ascent was the wish to see what so great a height had to offer. — Petrarch · 1336All 7 quotes →Middle Ages5 quotes
I have freed my soul. — Bernard of Clairvaux · 1152You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. — St. Bernard of Clairvaux · 1147God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself; I wanted simply you, nothing of yours. — Heloise · 1132And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. — Alcuin of York · 800My heart was not in me but with you, and now, even more, if it is not with you it is nowhere. — Heloise · 1132Age of Exploration3 quotes
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south. — Christopher Columbus · 1498And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear. — Christopher Columbus · 1493Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... We may rightly call a New World... A continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals other than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us. — Amerigo Vespucci · 1503